{"id":43255,"date":"2025-06-20T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43255"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:49:08","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-church-doorstep-group-behind-aberdeens-st-nicholas-kirk-revamp-could-take-reins-of-peterhead-carnegie-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43255","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (church) doorstep\u2019: Group behind Aberdeen&#8217;s St Nicholas Kirk revamp could take reins of Peterhead Carnegie building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arbuthnot_Museum_and_Library_Peterhead_geograph.org_.uk_6800911_by_JThomas_Commons_Wiki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arbuthnot_Museum_and_Library_Peterhead_geograph.org_.uk_6800911_by_JThomas_Commons_Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arbuthnot_Museum_and_Library_Peterhead_geograph.org_.uk_6800911_by_JThomas_Commons_Wiki.png 512w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Arbuthnot_Museum_and_Library_Peterhead_geograph.org_.uk_6800911_by_JThomas_Commons_Wiki-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Arbuthnot_Museum_and_Library,Peterhead-geograph.org.uk-_6800911.jpg\">Arbuthnot Museum and Library<\/a>, Peterhead by\u00a0JThomas, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group expected to take the reins of the Carnegie Building remains under wraps, but it could be Scot-Art, the charity behind plans to reopen the historic St Nicholas Kirk, reports <em>Aberdeen Live.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>Aberdeen Live<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Aberdeenshire Council started looking for a new operator to run the St Peter Street building last summer. Originally constructed in the 1890s, it was recently the home of the town library and Arbuthnot Museum\u2026 now set to be transformed into a major new arts and cultural venue\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 This could mean the historic site would open its doors to various groups, charities and start-up businesses\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An application for funding to repair the building has been submitted to Historic Environment Scotland\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aberdeenlive.news\/news\/aberdeen-news\/group-behind-aberdeens-st-nicholas-10146784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Arbuthnot Museum and Library, Peterhead by\u00a0JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The group expected to take the reins of the Carnegie Building remains under wraps, but it could be Scot-Art, the charity behind plans to reopen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,58,40,18,29,16],"class_list":["post-43255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-charity","tag-community","tag-conservation","tag-heritage","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43257,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43255\/revisions\/43257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}